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One analysis in a local newspaper was something that blew my mind: in the US your health insurance is tied to your employer?!. Just think about how absolutely insane that is. Your boss has life or death power over you and your loved ones. Apparently that's how Amazon was able to threaten it's workers.

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In fairness, that's because amazon gives its workers health insurance. Plenty of similar workers get nothing (Walmart for instance).

More generally I agree this needs totally rethinking, but Democrats have been trying to do that for at least 20 years so it might be a list cause...

> Plenty of similar workers get nothing (Walmart for instance).

That doesn't seem to be the case. https://one.walmart.com/content/dam/themepage/pdfs/Associate...

As I understand it... You only get coverage if you work 30h a week (and pay for it, per your link). Walmart usually schedules people for fewer hours a week to avoid this.

This is why (despite technically providing healthcare) Walmart is number one for employees enrolled in Medicaid [0].

Amazon's insurance kicks in at 20h a week [1]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...

[1] https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/benefitsoverview-us

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